By G Venkataraman
Lifestyles and paintings of Homi Jehangir Bhabha, 1909-1966, Indian physicist.
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S. citizen. Threatened with mandatory retirement in 1966, he left Harvard that same year for the University of Hawaii, where he finished out his career. In addition to teaching sensory sciences there, he conducted research for the telephone company in Hawaii. Békésy first became interested in the mechanics of human hearing while working for the Hungarian telephone system. His primary research duties involved designing improvements to Hungary’s long-distance service, but he eventually came to regard the ear as the most important feature of any telephone transmission system.
Alexander Dallas Bache, Scientist and Educator, 1806–1867. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1947. Slotten, Hugh R. S. Coast Survey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Baltimore, David (1938– ) virologist David Baltimore codiscovered retroviruses, cancercausing viruses that replicate themselves by reversing the normal transmission of genetic coding. For David Baltimore helped discover that certain cancercausing viruses replicate themselves by encoding from RNA to DNA. (Courtesy of David Baltimore; photo by Bob Paz/Caltech) 16 Banneker, Benjamin California; at the Salk Institute he worked with RENATO DULBECCO.
In 1863 he helped organize the National Academy of Sciences and served as its first president. In this position, he guided the academy’s efforts to help the federal government make use of new scientific and technological developments during the Civil War. Today, the academy remains one of the most important bodies for organizing, implementing, and assessing large-scale scientific research projects. After the Civil War, Bache returned to his duties at the Coast Survey. He died on February 17, 1867, in Newport, Rhode Island.